Linguistics and anthropology

Linguistics and anthropology

• Linguistics and anthropology

• Franz Boas:

• Lg patterns are unconscious and provide access to unconscious cultural patterning otherwise inaccessible to researchers

• Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf

• Language constitutes the means with which individuals think or determine cultural thought, perception & world view

Search for isomorphisms between grammar and culture

• Search for isomorphisms between grammar and culture

• Weak form: language provides the means for thought and perception

• Strong form: language conditions thought, perception and world view